Live music by Lenny Kravitz.
Singing “I’ll be waiting”, main theme of the Japanese movie “L-change the world”.

11：00pm

It became exciting more and more.
Some people started singing, dancing, and so on…
Live music lasted just before countdown.

It was the most exhausted time for my wife at this time.

11：55pm

“Imagine” by John Lennon was played.

11：59pm

Countdown began. Picture on the left is 8 seconds before New Year.

0：00

Happy New Year!

What a wonderful world!

Thousands of people raise their hands together and shouted the last minutes of countdown.
“Whew” so many sound mixed together,
“dong dong” the sound of fireworks echoed through buildings.
“Happy New Year!” so many kinds of the words from different countries were heard.
I lost myself taking pictures for a while, I looked up the sky.
I was surrounded by a lot of shiny confetti.

“…..what a wonderful world” the song by Louis Armstrong played at Times Square in New York moved me gently.